Survivability In Healthcare
Carnegie Mellon University
Survivability Requirements for the U.S. Health Care Industry
A Thesis Submitted to the Information Networking Institute in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree MASTER OF SCIENCE in INFORMATION NETWORKING
by Jose Caldera Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 2000 Copyright by Jose Caldera, 2000. All rights reserved
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Carnegie Mellon University Information Networking Institute
THESIS
SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF Master Science in Information Networking
Title Survivability Requirements for the U.S. Health Care Industry Presented by Jose Caldera Accepted by the Information Networking Institute
Thesis Advisor
_________________ Dr. David Fisher …show more content…
IS have come to constitute an important part of an organization’s culture, helping in many cases to shape it, to modify it and to leverage it. IS have become an indispensable piece in the organizational puzzle, thus an organization depends on them to succeed in today’s complicated-always changing environment.
This “emergent behavior”, where emergent refers to the state of being in continual transition and never achieving a final state [TBK99], is both driven by and is driving the development of IS within an organization. Obviously, this implies that the IS should be able to adapt to the new organization model, that is to say that IS never reach a final state, but rather are always adapting to the new demands and new needs of the …show more content…
Once the mission requirements are elicited/stated, it is necessary to expose them to the different threat scenarios and elicit the needed non-functional requirements, such that the system to be built can be resistant to the possible threats and guarantee the fulfillment of the mission. • Constraints imposed by the available technology. Technology in some cases is not cost effective enough to be commercially available and in other cases it has not been widely deployed. In a way that is to say that, in some cases, what technology can achieve is limited. • Cultural and social constraints. The culture of a community varies from country to country, from region to region within a country, from religion to religion, and from organization to organization. In some cases, depending on the application domain, these issues will impose constraints that might impact the design of the system. • Costs. Even when there is technology available, sometimes it is not accessible to every organization due to the cost involved in its acquisition. In other cases, the successful implementation of a system or a policy relies on a change in the structure and culture of an organization, which has significant costs that sometimes make the change infeasible. • Time. Constraints imposed by time can be interpreted in two ways: a) response time of
Survivability Requirements for the U.S. Health Care Industry
A Thesis Submitted to the Information Networking Institute in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree MASTER OF SCIENCE in INFORMATION NETWORKING
by Jose Caldera Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 2000 Copyright by Jose Caldera, 2000. All rights reserved
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Carnegie Mellon University Information Networking Institute
THESIS
SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF Master Science in Information Networking
Title Survivability Requirements for the U.S. Health Care Industry Presented by Jose Caldera Accepted by the Information Networking Institute
Thesis Advisor
_________________ Dr. David Fisher …show more content…
IS have come to constitute an important part of an organization’s culture, helping in many cases to shape it, to modify it and to leverage it. IS have become an indispensable piece in the organizational puzzle, thus an organization depends on them to succeed in today’s complicated-always changing environment.
This “emergent behavior”, where emergent refers to the state of being in continual transition and never achieving a final state [TBK99], is both driven by and is driving the development of IS within an organization. Obviously, this implies that the IS should be able to adapt to the new organization model, that is to say that IS never reach a final state, but rather are always adapting to the new demands and new needs of the …show more content…
Once the mission requirements are elicited/stated, it is necessary to expose them to the different threat scenarios and elicit the needed non-functional requirements, such that the system to be built can be resistant to the possible threats and guarantee the fulfillment of the mission. • Constraints imposed by the available technology. Technology in some cases is not cost effective enough to be commercially available and in other cases it has not been widely deployed. In a way that is to say that, in some cases, what technology can achieve is limited. • Cultural and social constraints. The culture of a community varies from country to country, from region to region within a country, from religion to religion, and from organization to organization. In some cases, depending on the application domain, these issues will impose constraints that might impact the design of the system. • Costs. Even when there is technology available, sometimes it is not accessible to every organization due to the cost involved in its acquisition. In other cases, the successful implementation of a system or a policy relies on a change in the structure and culture of an organization, which has significant costs that sometimes make the change infeasible. • Time. Constraints imposed by time can be interpreted in two ways: a) response time of